Wireless RADIUS

OneSpan Authentication Server Appliance supports authentication over a wireless connection via the RADIUS protocol.

Figure: Wireless RADIUS components

Wireless RADIUS terminology

An authentication service using wireless RADIUS has the following components:

• Supplicant. The device from which a wireless access request originates.

• Wireless access point. A wireless network signal transmitter and receiver. The wireless access point must be configured to use one of the following wireless protocols:

  • WPA Enterprise
  • WPA2 Enterprise

  We do not recommend the use of the TKIP encryption algorithm on wireless networks due to inherent security issues. Configure your WAP(s) to use the AES algorithm.

• Authenticator. The device to which the wireless access point passes authentication requests.